Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre and Performance

Simon Fraser University

The bachelor of fine arts (BFA) with a major in theatre and performance explores a broad range of genres and forms, including devised theatre, live art, and social practice. The program deviates from traditional theatre training by experimenting with contemporary processes of performance, unconventional narrative styles, expanded dramaturgy, experimental forms, new media and creative research. It examines how the fundamentals of performance-time, space, body, text, movement-help stage our burning political questions, enact necessary social interventions, and advance the broad aesthetic fields of contemporary art.Studio courses are supplemented by courses in theatre and performance studies and public facing production courses. Courses chosen from disciplines outside theatre and performance give the program an interdisciplinary component. Students are encouraged to participate in live productions and to develop their own performance projects.Students whose interest in theatre is primarily historical, critical or theoretical are directed to the art, performance and cinema studies major program, leading to a bachelor of arts.